The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying … household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the … and simultaneously estimated with the household outcomes. The authors present Nepalese evidence that suggests that a woman …

The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data … in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches … different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …

The authors use the collective model of the household and show, theoretically, that as the woman's power rises, child … labor will initially fall, but beyond a point it will tend to rise again. A household with a balanced power structure …

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household … first step in the exposition is to show that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior, in …

child labor supply to an increase in the relative price of a primary export product varies with a child's household … work. Thus, household composition attributes that are associated with higher levels of child labor are also associated with …

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case …. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric information from the Brazilian Table … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban …

vulnerability as expected poverty and illustrates a methodology to empirically assess household vulnerability using pseudo panel …Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty. This study conceives …

dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because of … measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters recovered from … this case pseudo-panel measures of vulnerability to poverty, reflect closely those based on actual panel data. …